![]() ![]() It displays LSB (Linux Standard Base) information about the Linux distribution. Learn more New to Nursys e-Notify? The lsb_release command is a helpful utility to find out information about our Linux installation. Primary source equivalent: The Nursys licensure and disciplinary database is the repository of the data provided directly from State Boards of Nursing. ![]() Receive automated license and discipline notifications of your enrolled RNs, LPN/VNs, and Advanced Practice nurses from participating boards of nursing. LsnbCSNB CDCLINK Variety and selection of snubber There are two methods of snubber circuits: passive snubber, LSNB which consists of passive components such as resistor, inductor, capacitor and diodes and active snubber, which utilize semiconductor switch(*1 ). ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Kate’s grandmother had made rosaries for each of her family members, engraving the beads with the initials of each of her relatives’ names. Her grandmother’s tragic death in the crash devastates Kate’s family, most especially her mother, who sinks into clinical depression over time. Published by Pauline Books & Media, “A Single Bead” is set in Indianapolis, Engelman’s current home, and relates how Katelyn “Kate” Marie Roberts discovers a rosary bead with her initials on it, in a field where her grandmother’s plane had crashed. Earlier this year, the book won Second Place in the Catholic Press Association Book Awards for Teens and Young Adults as well as Second Place in the Children’s Books Category of the Association of Catholic Publishers Excellence in Publishing Awards. “Eventually you’re making their responses your own.”Įngelman so believes in the power of the Rosary that she wrote “A Single Bead” to tell the tale of a teenage girl who discovers its life-changing beauty through her grandmother’s death. “If you’re praying the Rosary every day, then every day you’re meditating on the life of Christ and the Blessed Mother,” she says. ![]() It takes just 20 minutes a day to learn a whole new outlook on life, says Stephanie Engelman, author of the 2016 young adult Catholic novel “A Single Bead.”Ī convert from Methodism to Catholicism, Engelman spends about 20 minutes daily praying the Rosary, and says the practice has shaped her way of thinking. ![]() ![]() ![]() But when she's blackmailed and threatened with doxxing by an anonymous troll, Reyna has to confront the toxic gaming community head-on."- StorylineĪward Rise: A Feminist Book Project List, 2022. It's a chance to make a step forward towards her professional esports dreams and to help her family with the costs of her mother's hospital bills. ![]() Ready Player Onemeets the action of battle royale video games in this middle-grade sci-fi. When Reyna qualifies for the Dayhold Junior Tournament, she knows she's got what it takes to win the championship title and the $10,000 prize. Buy Last Gamer Standing by Katie Zhao for 17.00 at Mighty Ape NZ. Katie Zhaos writing makes you feel as if youre right there with Reyna, taking on demons and opponents in increasingly higher stakes rounds. ![]() Gaming is still a boys' club and to protect herself against trolls and their harassment, she games as the mysterious TheRuiNar. Last Gamer Standing is packed with brilliantly vivid action in a gaming world I wish existed. But despite Reyna's rising popularity and skills, no one knows who she is. Reyna is the up-and-coming junior amateur Dayhold gamer, competing in a VR battle royale against AI monsters and human players. Kids begin training from a young age, aspiring for the big leagues. Professional esports teams are the mainstream celebrities. Language eng Summary "In twelve-year-old Reyna Cheng's world, gaming is everything. ![]() Label Last gamer standing Title Last gamer standing Statement of responsibility Katie Zhao Creator ![]() ![]() ![]() Girls in her family are born with an extra finger on each hand, a genetic trait known as polydactyly. Growing up she was told by her mother, “Be proud, you’re a Dahomey women!” She cites as one of her ancestors the first Black woman to be “legally hanged” for manslaughter in the state of Kentucky during the time of the Maafa (Atlantic slavery) in the United States. She traced her family’s roots to the West African Kingdom of Dahomey, now the Republic of Benin. Thelma Lucille Sayles was born in Dewpew, New York on June 27, 1936. Her children’s book Everett Anderson’s Good-bye won the 1984 Coretta Scott King Award. Clifton was the first author to have two books of poetry chosen as finalists for the Pulitzer Prize, Good Woman: Poems and a Memoir, 1969-1980 (1987), and Next: New Poems (1987). In addition to her numerous poetry collections, she wrote many children’s books. ![]() Clifton is the recipient of many honors including, a 1999 Lila Wallace Readers Digest Writers award the National Book Award, for “Blessing the Boats: New and Selected Poems, 1988-2000” the 2007 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize and the Frost Medal, from the Poetry Society of America. Lucille Clifton was a distinguished award-winning poet, who from 1979 to 1985 was the Poet Laureate of Maryland. “I would like to be seen as a woman whose roots go back to Africa, who tried to honor being human…” ![]() ![]() The fantasy elements include witches and armoured polar bears the trilogy also alludes to concepts from physics, philosophy, and theology. Īlthough His Dark Materials has been marketed as young adult fiction, and the central characters are children, Pullman wrote with no target audience in mind. In 2003, the trilogy was ranked third on the BBC's The Big Read poll. The novels have won a number of awards, including the Carnegie Medal in 1995 for Northern Lights and the 2001 Whitbread Book of the Year for The Amber Spyglass. ![]() It follows the coming of age of two children, Lyra Belacqua and Will Parry, as they wander through a series of parallel universes. ![]() His Dark Materials is a trilogy of fantasy novels by Philip Pullman consisting of Northern Lights (1995 published as The Golden Compass in North America), The Subtle Knife (1997), and The Amber Spyglass (2000). ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Rowan Mayfair, a beautiful woman, a brilliant practitioner of neurosurgery-aware that she has special powers but unaware that she comes from an ancient line of witches-finds the drowned body of a man off the coast of California and brings him to life. It begins in our time with a rescue at sea. On the veranda of a great New Orleans house, now faded, a mute and fragile woman sits rocking… and The Witching Hour begins. From the author of the extraordinary Vampire Chronicles comes a huge, hypnotic novel of witchcraft and the occult through four centuries.ĭemonstrating, once again, her gift for spellbinding storytelling and the creation of legend, Anne Rice makes real for us a great dynasty of witches-a family given to poetry and to incest, to murder and to philosophy a family that, over the ages, is itself haunted by a powerful, dangerous, and seductive being. ![]() ![]() Deftly entwining swashbuckling action and quiet magic, Maggie Tokuda-Hall’s inventive debut novel conjures a diverse cast of characters seeking mastery over their fates while searching for answers to big questions about identity, power, and love.Ī ruthless pirate and an aristocrat’s daughter seem like unlikely allies-and that’s exactly what makes them the perfect team. Soon the unlikely pair set in motion a wild escape that will free a captured mermaid (coveted for her blood) and involve the mysterious Pirate Supreme, an opportunistic witch, double agents, and the all-encompassing Sea herself. Flora doesn’t expect to be taken under Evelyn’s wing, and Evelyn doesn’t expect to find such a deep bond with the pirate Florian. But on this voyage, Flora is drawn to the Lady Evelyn Hasegawa, who is headed to an arranged marriage she dreads. ![]() For Flora, former starving urchin, the brutal life of a pirate is about survival: don’t trust, don’t stick out, and don’t feel. ![]() Aboard the pirate ship Dove, Flora the girl takes on the identity of Florian the man to earn the respect and protection of the crew. In a world divided by colonialism and threaded with magic, a desperate orphan turned pirate and a rebellious imperial lady find a connection on the high seas. ![]() ![]() By Joan Didion Book cover of Slouching Towards Bethlehem: Essays Eleanor & Park. Whether it’s the romance between Hazel and Augustus that had you in tears, or Hazel’s moving character arc that made you feel whole, check out these seven books that are sure to spark some emotional reading sessions. 10 books like The Fault in Our Stars Slouching Towards Bethlehem. ![]() If you’re searching for books that feature bittersweet romance, coming to terms with loss, and realistic depictions of young adults-some of the most iconic elements of The Fault in Our Stars-you've come to the right place. To avoid this she roams around in the city at midnight. Katie suffers from a rare disease that makes even a little exposure to sunlight fatal for her. Pop culture aside, The Fault in Our Stars shares many themes with other strong YA books. Like terminally ill characters of the Fault in Our Stars, Midnight Sun by Trish Cook also chronicles the story of Katie Price. ![]() ![]() ![]() The novel was even made into a 2014 film starring Shailene Woodley and Ansel Elgort, a critically acclaimed adaptation that brought this unforgettable story to the big screen-and, of course, introduced us to Charli XCX’s summer jam “Boom Clap”. Top 10 books to read now you've finished The Fault in Our Stars So you powered on through John Green's tear-jerker of love and loss, The Fault in Our Stars and now you are left in a sea of. The tragic love story of Hazel and Augustus made us laugh and cry too many times to count, inspiring an entire generation of readers to further explore the charms of the romance genre. First published in 2012, The Fault in Our Stars by John Green made waves within YA lit. ![]() ![]() ![]() We see characters who do horrible, unspeakable things only to learn that they faced similar abuse. In the past few years, middle America has been a central topic of discussion, with some people crediting Donald Trump’s election to the undetected anger that thrummed throughout these “flyover states.” The novel understands this anger in all of its myriad ways. “Ohio” is gripping it is hard to look away from even as there are moments that are difficult to stomach. But as the novel progresses, it becomes more and more clear that these individual lives have been entangled long after they each left New Canaan in hopes of escaping their fate and remain enmeshed even as they return to it. One fateful night in 2013, the four main characters return to their hometown of New Canaan, their nights crossing over one another even as each person is profoundly alone in their experiences.īill, Stacey, Dan and Tina are all running from their own ghosts. The characters of “Ohio” are haunted by this wanting, unable to escape its effects. In the acknowledgements, Markley writes of that particular feeling of wanting a version of yourself that no longer exists - a feeling that is remarkably similar to grief. Horrific in a way that is only possible when grounded in reality, Markley’s novel explores the cruelties that have been inflicted by and on each of the characters. Stephen Markley’s debut novel “Ohio” is an unforgiving portrayal of post-9/11 life in a small Midwestern town. ![]() ![]() ![]() Abuse becomes the impetus for Pamela to finish college and began a business that will help her end child abuse nationwide. Rather, she relies on an old book by Iceberg Slim that actually empowers Pamela Jean. ![]() Pamela loves her mother so much she never tells her about the constant abuse. When two teens attempt to burn Pamela alive in a tunnel, the negativity against her makes her stronger. When young Pamela gleans that her mother is tired and does not have answers, the strong warrior decides to turn a negative into a positive. At 8 years old Pamela races to her mother, who is very dark-skinned to ask her why she is different. Pamela is light-skinned, with pale skin and strong negro features. ![]() Ruthless Pamela Jean is an incredible story about a girl who is abused at school because of how she looks. Qn 1: Can you tell us more about your book What is it about? The African American Literature Book Club named Mrs Mitchell, “A Writer You Should Know.” Mrs Mitchell resides in Phoenix, Arizona. She wrote her first of 15 novels in 1983 to rave reviews and a coveted place in the nation’s Library of Congress. She wrote Your Rights What Employers Do Not Want You To Know, to help California workers throughout the state. ![]() Award-winning author Carol Denise Mitchell is a warrior of the human spirit. ![]() |